[opportune]

I think aviation is pretty well-suited to carbon taxes/offsets. There are only a few major players and it would be very easy to enforce. Also I think the market would rather easily bear a 30% increase in flight costs

[dogma1138]

The UK is an island, if you crank up airfare by 30% if would have a huge impact on the economy.

[adrianN]

You know what else will have a huge impact on the economy? Catastrophic climate change.

[julianlam]

> Also I think the market would rather easily bear a 30% increase in flight costs

Was that sarcasm? Because air travel has been a race to the bottom from what I've seen

[bdamm]

The government has always defined the bottom (above physics), and they can certainly boost the bottom up by 30%. Remember when pretty much everyone took the Greyhound?

[tomjen3]

Sure, but that doesn't mean we can't pay its actual cost. I would be for that, as long as every last cent was used ofset the CO2 in the most effective way possible.

If used in any other way, forget it.